Frank meskee



(No Model.)

I. MESKER.

PLATE M'ETALCOLUMN.

No. 397,868. Patented Feb. 12., 1889.

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giammsvfl NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK MESKER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO MESKER & BROTHER,

. OF SAME PLACE.

PLATE=METAL COLUMN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,868, dated. February 12, 1889. Application filed November 27, 1838. $crial N0. 292 ,026. (N model.)

column of the kind under consideration to be sold at a rate that necessitates the use of a comparatively brittle metal, and to enable such a grade of metal to be used successfully I have discovered that sharp angles in it must 50 be avoided, and that rounded turns-such as at the corners (L -must be employed, for the fiber of the metal extends upward and downward in the column, and when the plate is bent parallel with the direction of the fiber 55 it cracks and becomes useless. This difficulty is avoided in the manner described. The rounded corner is also desirable, in that it is stronger generally than the square corner,

Be it known that 1, FRANK MESKER, of st. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Plate-h'let-al Columns, of

which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvem of construction emploved in work, such as building l'ronts.

It consists, mainly, in the special shape imparted to the single plate which com 'mses the front and sides of the column, substantially as is hereinafter set forth and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings,making part of this ent relates, mainly, to a class To all whom it may concern/.

architectural l specification, in which and in thatit is better protected from injury. 60

Figure l is a view in perspective of the im- ,The column. also is better suited for many proved column and having ornamental porarchitectural designs than is one having tions applied thereto; and Fig. 2, ahorizontal square corners. Ornamental parts such as section, upon an enlarged scale, of the column. the capital l) and base E-can be applied to The same letters of reference denote the the )late A and can be secured thereto b 6' I 3 same parts. any suitable means. It 1s desirable that these A represents the metal plate which l'orms parts be made to lit the rounded corners a the front (L and the sides a a of the column. substantially as is shown in l.

B represents a wooden piece inserted within l I clai in- V 2 5 the sides a a. It is fastened to the plate A, i 1. The herein described platennetal 001- 70 and preferably by means of such fastenings i umn, the same consisting of the singleplate as the screws C. The pieceBforms the back A and the piece B, said plate forming the of the column, and it is also made to largely i front and the sides ot the column, and being occupy the interior of the column, and thereby l shaped to form the rounded corners a a serve to brace the sides a a throughout the i 2. The herein -described plate-metal col- 75 principal portion of. their width, as well as to umn, the same consisting of the single plate strengthen the column generally. The prin- A and the piece B, said plate being shaped cipal feature, however, of the column, and t to term the front and sides and rounded corwhich is of value irrespective of the-thickt ncrs, as described, and said piece B being 3 5 ness of the piece B, is the special shape immade to form the back of the column and to So parted to the front portion of the plate A. In occupy the principal portion of the interior the place of shaping the plate to iorm square of the col umn, and being united to the columncorners atthe front of the column, t is shaped sides, as set torth. to term round corners, substantially as is Witness my hand this ltlth dayot October,

shown at (L2 a that is, in a column, say, six '1 898.

'n ll-C v'dsiJi 1S 1 on 77 a, 1 c es 1 e by n cl e deep tle em eis FRAxh MESIXER. aform a quarter-turn whose radius is one and one-half inch. \Vitnesscs:

From this construction several at'lvantages accrue. The demands of the trade require a O. D. MOODY, D. W. C. SANFORD. 

